Bail bond co. ordered to pay more than $82K

Client fled out of country

10:55 PM,
Aug. 15, 2013

Almalhi

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Triple R Bail Bonds Inc.'s Jeremy Rowland's plea for more time fell on deaf ears Thursday in Baxter County Circuit Court when Judge Gordon Webb ordered Rowland's company to forfeit a bond of more than $82,000 after Rowland's client, Zaher Almalhi, failed to show up in court and reportedly fled to his home country of Jordan.

Rowland is a member of the Arkansas Professional Bail Bondsman Licensing Board, he told the judge.

"I know the rules well so you won't see any shucking and jiving on our part," Rowland told the judge. "My agent wrote the bond, and the buck stops with me." ...